As the topics says, I can’t get my carefully crafted patch to save to the +Drive so I could use it in other projects, anyone care to give me a step-by-step guide, please?
I’m reading the online-manual and get to page 59>14.2.2 SOUND MANAGER>
but from here I get lost, I push “global settings” >Sounds >sound manager> but what next? I only start with the first one named 001 Digit-one and can’t find my own sound, only the stock-preset I started with and not my renamed one?
As usual I’m surely missing something pretty obvious?
I believe it works like this, based on my limited time with it:
If you export (save) a sound to Drive+, and then add it to a new pattern, that instance is saved with the pattern itself. Think of it as a copy. So if you change the sound in any way on the pattern and want to use it anywhere outside of the current pattern you are in, you need to export (save) it again to Drive+. This is actually a fantastic feature as it lets you parent and child sounds. Think of Drive+ as your primary paints and your track/pattern sounds as your mixed colors. If you want to add your new color back to your primary paint section, just export it!
If you just save a sound, it is placed on the first free slot. If it‘s a brand new DN, bank A and B are filled up with presets and bank C will be empty, therefore it would be located there.
I also have this question. I created a nice sound and wanted to save it to de +drive. Tried to find it online, tried to follow the manual, ended up losing the sound.
Press [ V ] down button to select “RENAME TRK SOUND”
Press [ YES ] button
Name your sound
Press [ NO ] to go back
Press [ ^ ] button to select “SOUND MANAGER”
Press [ YES ] button
to find an empty slot in the +drive, I suggest: press [ BANK ] + [ 16 ] to select the last bank. I use this bank for my own stuff and fill the other banks from the “bottom” You could pick another bank if you like. An empty slot looks like this
I had a very similar question when I first got mine. Make sure you’ve downloaded the latest manual as they have added some useful stuff that was not present at first and saving sounds is now clearer. I think the ‘export to here’ menu item isn’t exactly intuitive if you were looking for something as fast and obvious as, say, the Analog Four’s method.
Not really 13 steps… I wouldn’t count using the arrow keys as individual steps, as it seems fairly intuitive to be able to navigate to a menu item in one step
Also, you don’t need to rename the sound before you save it, as it prompts you just before export.
I really appreciated your help on this back then btw.
Question.
So, say I have a song with 4 sounds I want to save as new presets.
I have saved the first as directed.
So, I then have empty lines on my preset list under the one I just saved.
Is there a way while at this point to quickly add sequentially the 2nd, 3rd ,and 4th new preset sound respectively in some sort of short cut since I am at the essential endpoint?
I am not sure if this translates in a clear way. But I appreciate your time again.
I’m sorry, I have been neglecting my Elektron gear for some time and I have no idea wether what you would like is possible. However, the words “quickly add” do not really fit into the Elektron philosophy. If you can’t find out how it works and have tried all shift- and long presses, it probably isn’t implemented.
I may be wrong, but can’t you just do the latter portion of your instructions and save a preset without naming it in the beginning?
Because you can just do that while exporting to “here”…where ever here is…LOL
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